Dramatic video shows a chimpanzee swinging from electrical poles and taking a swing at his captors as he makes a desperate bid for freedom after escaping from a Japanese zoo.

Chacha falls off an electric pole after being hit by a sedative arrow.AP

Cha Cha managed to climb out of his enclosure at the Yagiyama Zoological Park Thursday afternoon and was monkeying around Miyagi Prefecture in northern Tokyo for about an hour before being recaptured, according to The Telegraph.

Footage shows the daring 24-year-old ape swinging from an electric pole and at one point, chewing on power lines.

Zoo workers were eventually able to stop the monkeying around with a tranquilizer dart–enraging the chimp who tried to take a swing at them.

The sedative eventually kicked in and caused Cha Cha to lose his grip as he flipped off the pole multiple times, plunging to the ground.

Crews managed to break his fall with a blanket.

He was returned to the zoo, which is still trying to figure out exactly how he escaped.